From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 14 15:54:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08947 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 15:54:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08912 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:54:14 GMT (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (pm01-21.aei.ca [206.123.6.121]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA16177; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:53:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3533E909.36696386@aei.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:54:01 -0400 From: KapuT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake CC: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do newbies want? References: <19980415072144.14144@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > What would make things easier and more pleasant for people who try FreeBSD > for the first time? Is there something you wished for when you started but > couldn't find? What did you find that you really liked? Are there problems > that only newbies have, that could be addressed somehow? If you had a magic > wand, what would you like to see added, removed, or improved? > The introduction to unix: from Win95 to Unix > We did discuss this a bit before but I think it's worth exploring it in more > depth, now that there's a lot of talk about promoting FreeBSD. It's one > thing to attract people to FreeBSD, but what else could we be offering them > once they arrive? > A real explanation! > Newbies are the experts here, so first see how many ideas you can come up > with. Even if they are impossible ideas they could inspire someone else to > think of something, so don't hold back. Later on we can pick out the > important ones and look at how to implement them, but let's just get the > ideas flowing first. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > find / -name "*.conf" |more Hey, any hacker (in the good sense of the word... not cracker) read this mailling-lost? sorry, mailling-list :-) Malartre I need help www.aei.ca/~malartre/ -- --------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5-RELEASE --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message